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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sodomy"”.
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Staging Sodomy: Deviance and Devotion on the Early English Stage
… is an examination of the multivalent category of sodomy in late medieval works of and about biblical drama: A Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge, the York Joseph's Trouble About Mary and the N-Town Passion plays. Because the Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge invokes charges of sodomy in its attack on …
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Surveilling Sin: Locating Sodomy in the Early Modern Florentine Bathhouse
This thesis examines the carnal sin of sodomy in early modern Florence, Italy (1432–1600). More specifically, this project investigates one particular sodomitical locale: the San Niccolò bathhouse. Domenico Cresti’s (called ‘Il Passignano’) Bathers at San Niccolò (1600) depicts a contemporaneous …
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The narrow road towards a possible decriminalisation of consensual sodomy in Malawi
… hypothesis that criminalisation of consensual sodomy is unconstitutional and should be invalidated even in the midst of challenges to such a declaration. Chapter two will give comprehensive outline of the offence of carnal knowledge against the order of nature under section 153 of the Code. The …
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Sodomy and human difference: Anglophone conceptualisations of Ottoman male same-sex activity, c.1590–1700.
This dissertation focuses on the ideas of sodomy and human difference in early modern Anglophone discourses. The purpose of my thesis is to historicise and to complicate our understandings of Anglophone conceptions of sodomy in relation to the Ottoman Empire. This thesis argues that, far from being …
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The right to sexual orientation and LGBTIQ+ rights: a case study of Zimbabwe and Nigeria
… rights are infringed in these states by the sodomy laws. Although sexual orientation is not specifically enumerated as a prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Zimbabwean and Nigerian Constitutions, this study argues that international human rights law is evolving to include sexual …
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Attempting to be dad and dad: examining the challenges of surrogacy for gay couples in Namibia
… on gay couples stems from the enactment of the Sodomy law. Its social and political climate (which has more than 30 years) enabled inequality and discrimination between heterosexual and homosexual couples. Following its repeal, Namibia’s stance has yet to change. The basis of this research …
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Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court
… orientation which allows the Court to endorse sodomy laws. In Lawrence v. Texas a competing narrative was shaped that reframed elements of the Bowers narrative in order to ultimately reject the Court's decision in Bowers. This analysis demonstrates that narrative method of rhetorical analysis …
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Public sexuality: a contemporary history of gay images and identity
… of Matthew Shepard, and the decriminalization of sodomy. At each site, I examine the event, the various identities presented, and the tensions and erasures that result from the specific identity performances. In conclusion, I envision a political movement which is inclusive of multiple identities …
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Under the spectre of colonialism : an analysis of UK-based NGOs engaged in contemporary transnational LGBTI activism
… spectre via engagements with aid conditionality, sodomy laws, the Commonwealth, and LGBTI asylum.
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Growing Queer: youth temporality and the ethics of group sex in contemporary Moroccan & South African literature
… feature since Magufuli was elected in 2015, and sodomy still carries a prison sentence of up to 30 years in Tanzania (Burke). The current “morality crusade” is not that unusual, in other words, and it imagines sexual and gender minorities as outside the nation-state, as not quite citizens. This …
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Childhood sexual abuse : the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital experience, 1986-1988
… More serious forms of sexual abuse, rape or sodomy, were common, accounting for 60% of the cases. Over 70% of the children had physical signs to substantiate their claims of having been sexually abused. Sexually transmitted disease was a common finding, being present in 15,6 % at …
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The fellowship of St.Diogo : new Christian judaisers in Coimbra in the early 17th century
… charged with heresy and apostasy, as well as sodomy (he was a known paederast), and finally handed over to the secular arm for execution. His dream of building up a judaiser community in Coimbra was shattered. The Fellowship members who survived either left the country and joined the orthodox …
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Crime and punishment in the Delaware River area, 1740-1790, as reported in the Philadelphia newspapers
… maiming, highway robbery, burglary, arson, sodomy, buggery, rape, concealing the death of a bastard child, advising the killing such a child, and witchcraft. Later in the period counterfeiting was added to the list. Offenses which were not deemed capital were punished generally with some …
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The sexual assault and rape of male offenders and awaiting-trial detainees
In this study the nature and extent of the sexual assault and rape of male sentenced offenders and awaiting-trial detainees in Pretoria Local Correctional Centre were investigated. Prison gangs, overcrowding of correctional centres, the involvement of correctional officials and the sexual …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices jurists make in producing judicial opinion delimit the grounds upon which …